Salvation By Grace

TFL: Basic Christianity 14:00

• 1 Peter 5:12
  • 12 By o Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, p I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is q the true grace of God. r Stand firm in it.

• Stand fast in the true grace of God, and you cannot stand fast in it until you know it, and you cannot stand fast in it until you believe it, and you cannot stand fast in it until the conviction lies in your heart that here is where my identity lies

• We can never do enough to become accepted by God
  • We do not have to by tyrannized by the question “Have I ever done enough?”
  • Only the Christian can say “I can never do enough.”

• But because of what Jesus did, we are instantaneously without blemish and stain in God’s sight (this is the doctrine of justification by faith in Jesus Christ)
  • We are immediately made right by status made right in God’s sight
  • We will never be more accepted that we are today because we are placed in Christ and what happens in sanctification is that our character catches up with our status
  • The Spirit of God is now at work in our lives to conform us to the status which He has now given us in His son

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